8/24/11

Judging from the overwhelming response I've gotten on the tomato pie AND the tomato & cheddar hand pies, I can clearly see there are a lot of tomato fans out there like me. You have good palettes.

And here is another tomato filled, tasty recipe. It's really quite simple you see, it's just two different kinds of tomato flavor on a pizza. But boy oh boy do they pair well on a pizza--very well. There could be some of you out there who have already had this combo, but for those of you who haven't you must try your next homemade pizza this way.

Had I known that a couple of friends were going to tell me to make a post of this pizza I would have taken shots of the ingredients like I always do. I didn't because to be honest I've made this pizza for years and never thought to share it with you. I know better--I should share everything--you're all foodies too. I'll do better at that.

But the ingredients are merely: good homemade pizza dough (I adore whole foods multi- grain pizza dough), ketchup used as the tomato sauce (a nice think layer), good mozzarella cheese, and some sun-dried tomatoes that are soaking in olive oil. Trust me, you will love it. And its easy peasy.

preheat oven to 450/500 degrees. grease up a jelly roll pan.
spread out pizza dough
apply thin layer of ketchup, even the edges of the dough
apply the mozzarella
add on the sun dried tomato bits
add on the red pepper flakes (if desired), then the salt & pepper

bake for about 10-18 minutes until desired doneness is achieved
i like mine really crispy so i went to about the 17 minute mark.
let cool before slicing.

Everything you make looks so fabulous, that I'm just going to have to take your word for it :DI actually just took a pizza making class and am excited to make some yummy pizzas of my own. Thank you for the delicious inspiration!*kisses* HH

Your Scandinavian roots are showing through again, Dawn! Norwegians love putting ketchup on pizza! I will tell you what we do, which I think is also heavenly, and you should try - tomato paste instead of sauce - we use this all the time for homemade pizza and will never go back!

This sounds wonderful. The ketchup would add some sweetness to the pizza which I would really go for. Your pics are mouthwatering! Trader Joe's has some great organic ketchup which we really like a lot! I am going to have to try this next time we are having pizza!

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